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DoorDash Engineer: How I Went From 500+ Rejections to a $200K Offer
He sent 500 applications junior year and heard back from almost nobody. No internship. Just rejection while his friends posted Meta and Amazon offers on LinkedIn.One year later: DoorDash, Apple,…
TikTok AI Engineer: Anyone Can Break Into AI, But Most People Won’t!
Sourish walked away from a $250K TikTok ML job with no plan, self-studied AI, and landed at one of Silicon Valley's hottest AI labs. Now he interviews candidates himself and he's exposing exactly…
AI Interview Founder: Big Tech’s New Coding Interview Explained!
NeetCode just invested in the company trying to kill LeetCode. Aman sits down with Rounds founder Fardeen Khimani to break down why tech hiring is broken, which companies are ditching LeetCode,…
How This Ex-Google Engineer Made $1.2M & Quit in the Worst Market Ever
She made $1.2M at Google, then quit with 4 offers in the worst market ever.Ex-Google Senior Engineer Maddy Zhang breaks down how she escaped golden handcuffs, landed offers at OpenAI, Meta and…
#1 Tech Comedian Reacts To The Most Viral Engineering News
"Engineers are doing everything they can to look indispensable, because they're terrified." A Google senior engineer and top tech comedian breaks down what's really happening inside big tech right…
The Girl Who Did Everything Wrong and Still Landed Big Tech
From a village in Pakistan to Microsoft engineer and chapter one of the LinkedIn CEO's book, Ume's path broke every rule.She dropped her CS degree, scored a 12% on an exam, and still landed 7…
#1 Tech Influencer Exposes the Brutal Truth About the 2026 Job Market
He got an Amazon internship before he even took data structures. Here's how.Sajjaad Khader — Georgia Tech BS + MS by age 20, former Amazon and Splunk engineer, and the guy who interviewed Satya…
Apple PM: The Secret Playbook to Get Hired in 2026!
Nina had an MIT CS degree, a growing online presence, and still called her job hunt the most stressful time of her life.In this episode she breaks down consulting burnout, back to back rejections,…
The Quant Historian: Quant Is Dying! This Is What’s Next
Most people have never heard of him. But he's built something that trades 24/7, got backed by YC and PG Angel, and walked away from one of the most secretive industries on earth to do it.Annanay…
Tesla AI Recruiter Exposes Why Most Engineers Will Fail the AI Pivot
Today I sit down with Ben Chen: a former Tesla AI recruiter who helped build the Optimus robotics team and has seen thousands of engineering applications from the inside.We break down why the job…
AI Agents Expert: How Every Software Engineer Can Make $20k/Month Passively!
Today I sit down with Ritesh: a former Capital One engineer who made $180K from side hustles as a CS student—more than his six-figure salary.We break down how he built profitable AI agents, landed a…
Oracle Senior Software Engineer: The US Job Market is F*cked!
Today I sit down with Shreyas Kulkarni: a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle who came from India and turned his US Master's into a $10K profit instead of debt.We break down how he paid just $12K…
Meta Software Engineer: “Didn't Study CS, Still Made $500k/Year!”
Today I sit down with Ray: a former Meta software engineer who went from pre-med with a failing AP Comp Sci score to making $500K a year. We break down how he landed tech internships without a CS…
#15: Networking Expert: "F*ck College, Do Internships Instead!"
Today I sit down with Morgan: a networking strategist who landed six internships, saved over $100K before graduating, and built her entire college trajectory around efficiency, not prestige. We break…
#14: ex-Citadel Quant: The Exact Blueprint To Make $750,000/Year! (in 2026)
Today I sit down with Kevin Zhu — former Citadel quant and Palantir developer, to unpack how he built an unconventional, accelerated career in tech. We break down the systems he used to go from a…
#13: BCG Consultant: How Software Engineers Can Outsmart the Tech Recession
Today, I talk with Kelly — a former BCG Project Leader who worked at Goldman Sachs and BCG before walking away at 25 after managing teams most people don't lead until their mid-30s. We dive into the…
#12: How She Got a Six-Figure LinkedIn Offer (When Everyone Else Was Rejected)
Today, I talk with Angel — a LinkedIn engineer who landed a $100K+ offer when almost everyone else was getting rejected. We dive into the five strategies that helped her stand out: from securing…
#11: How This 24-Year-Old Made $900K+ in Quant (After Meta Layoff)
Meet Helen, a 24-year-old quant who’s earned over $900K and is here to reveal what life is really like inside the quant world. We dive into how she landed Meta as her first internship, exposed the…
#10: I Asked a Principle Engineer at Amazon How to Get Hired (ft. @ALifeEngineered)
Today, I talk with Steve from A Life Engineered ( @ALifeEngineered ) — a software engineering YouTuber with over 170,000+ subscribers who quit his job at Amazon after nearly 18 years to help others…
#9: NeetCode - How I Would Master LeetCode (If I Could Start Over)
Computer science students, new graduates, and bootcamp grads…want to land your dream software engineering job or internship? Click here 👉…
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SWE Accelerator Podcast has published 27 episodes since April 2024, covering topics in Business, Careers.
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